Record for accounting systems



Dec. 29 1925- w. w. LASKER, JR V RECORD FOR ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS FiledOct.

, Patented Dec. 29, 1925.

1 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFF-ICE.

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'Application filed Octojzer 1, 1921. Serial- 1T0. 504,817.

To all whom it mag "concern:

Be it known that I. WILLIAM IV. LA-SKER,

Jr., .a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Records for Accounting Systems.

My invention relates to improvements in Y forminga designating means ondocuments such as cards, cheques, railroad orother tickets, way bills,money orders, and the like; and the objects of my improvement are,first, to provide means for designating documents of said characterwhereby the same may be sorted, distributed and tabulated by suitableaccounting machines; sec- 0nd,- to provide a means whereby originaldocuments may be designated for sorting,

distributing and tabulating in accounting machines and thus avoid theerror possible in transcribing from original document to special recordsfor the purpose. A further object of my invention is to provide adesignating means that can be applied to documents at the time same areprinted or any time thereafter toform a designating record that will notbe structurally mutilated or weakened thereby.

I attain t 'ese objects by means hereinafter described and illustratedin the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a view of a documentshowing the improved designating means ofone digit.

Fig. 2 is a view of a document showing the improveddesio'natingmeans oftwo digits.

Fig. 3 is a view of a document showing the improved designating means ofthree digits.

Fig. 4 is a view showing a document with designating digits. of amodified form.

Similar numerals refer 'to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4i'represent documents in theform of railroad tickets which form I will use to iIlustrate anddescribe an example of my invention; it being understood that recordcards, way bills, cheques, money orders, and other records maybe'designated in a similar manner according to my invention.

The document 1 is formed of paper, card board or the like-and may he ofany suitable material having electrical insulating properties.

"The designating means 2 is a metallic coating or other electricalconducting medium disposed on one or more portions of the 1nsul at1ngsurface of the docmnent l, he said electrical conducting portions 2,being (llSPOS8Cl to designate digits of-numerals as shown in Figs. 1,2,3 and 4; as an example. l lg. 1 shows a document designated as 7.

u a 'Q lug. 2 shows a document designated as I i -lug. 3 shows adocument deslgnated as Fig. 4 shows a document designated as Byarranging the designating means described to conform to the informationrequired on any articular document a designating record of; same canbeformed that would be'adanted to be sorted, distributed or tabulated byspecial machines provided with electrodes thatwould beshort circuited bythe described designating means formed on the documents.

The special machines referred to are not illustrated or described hereinas .the same will form the subject matter of separate patentapplications.

An example of the use of -my improved designatingrecordsis as follows;let the document Fig. 1 represent a railroad ticket issued from station7 Fig. 2 from station 1,

9 Fig. 3 from station 1, 9, 7 tickets issued from other station willalso hear designations corresponding to the station of issue; when thesedocuments are turned into the accounting department they can readily besorted, distributed and tabulated by the desv iouslydescribed.

Special designating records can' also be 55 made from original data in.accordance with i natin means on the documents as premy invention byarranging the designating means described as shown in Fig. 4.

I am aware that prior to my invention special records for sorting,distributing and ance with a record representing digits ofthe numeralsystem formed by electrical conducting and insulating portions disposedon the surface of the domunent.

3. A document adapted to be electro-mechzmically segregated, sorted andtabulated in accordance with a record representing characters formed byelectrical conducting and insulating portions disposed on the surface ofthe document. I

4. A document adapted to be electrically sorted and having a pluralityof conductive identifying means displayed thereon at. predetermineddistances apart.

5. A record document for statistical purposes, consisting of a bodyprovided with a surface of insulatingmaterial, and having identifyingmeans on said surface in the form of spots or portions of electricconducting material applied as a coating to said insulated surface,whereby a pair of electrical terminals of opposed polarity causedtoengage any one of said spots will close a circuit through saidterminals adapted to operate a work member.

6. Record document means for statistical purposes, consisting of aplurality of sheets each provided with a surface of insulating material,and each having identifying means on said surface in the form of spotsor= por tions of electric conducting material applied as a coating tosaid sheets in predetermined relati vel'y different locations, whereby'a number of pairs of electrical terminals of opposed polarity caused toengage successively with said sheet spots will close a circuit throughterminals to operate a compiling iucmber.

-7. A record-document for statistical pur: poses, consisting of a bodyprovided with a surface, portion and having identifying means on thesaid surface in the formof spots or portions applied asa coating to saidsurface,-one of said surface portions being of electrical-conductingmaterial and the other surface portion being ofr-i nsulating material,whereby a set of pairs of electrical terminals of opposed polaritycaused to engage said body will closea circuit through the terminals ofone pair' at the conducting surface portion, while the other saidsurface portion will insulate the other pair -of terminals.

WILLIAM W. LASKER, JR.

